AT F exacting demand of his taste, Made of better fabrics, in a bet- ter way, so it wears better, and fits as no ordinary shirt will. It costs ne more--but itpays best--when you demand this brand. Makers of Good Shirts "oo BERLIN, CANADA ind Stoves i y for the next cold tyle, Happy Tho ght, I Range, with High re Luck, with High yd only. ted sizes. r wood. lium size. : NOTE: Second-hand Stove er and to work well y refunded. i, 69-71 Brock St do ENFANT ~ Christmas trade we intend CABINETS in a fine ma- e prices, 'Phone 147. ~ rom"s Breakfast "MEAL MADE." ance Company ® ====-==---- § 32,000,000.00. $115,000,000.06. a Tnbinibong === $ 8,000,000,00. : have the best." s Company as Agent call in the d satisfactory arrangements J. 0. HUTTON, Manager, Kingston District. ee -------------------- FHA IEEE LEIA . . 3 Ripe Pineapples, 3 2 Tomatoes, orida Grape Fruit. F444 = 0 FHEEH FIFE PP FEE FI FH4r4 -------- Ss for New fts : $2.75 to 5.00. 0.00. 3 ts. 77 Princess : 9 Street. F404 +H 4 bet tbe Nadnesday, NGSTONK RIVET SLL AYN D} - canadian Pocilc Ray Christmas and Mew ~ Year Rates RETURN TICKETS, SINGLE FARE FUR 2, mio ing nth Jen. 3, 2008. TT FARE AND A THIRD wood Dec. 31.93, 23, 24 and 25, 29, 30 mod 31 and J 1. ell good returning an. 8, 1908. 5 o rticulars K. & » Full pa . and C, p, B. Ticket Offa, Ontario street. ¥ F. CONWAY, » Pass. Agent. Bay of Quinte Railway Peseronto, and all local points. Raine Cf Hell Dey ¥ hick Son, Agent Bary. Sak Christmas & New Year's Holidays, 1907- 1908. Bound trip tickets will be sold at SINGLE FIRST-CLASS FARE and Wednesday, ny th, to return til TT ay. Beef seid and Fo Tae: joy Wednesday, December Sist, and Be 1st, 1908, good to return until Therstiay, Jaowary 2nd, 1908; also at First-Class Fare-and- One-Third. December 21st, 20nd, 33rd, 24th, 25th, 28th, 29¢h, SDR, 81st end January 1st, 1908, "yetura: on or before Janu- ary Spd, X h For full particulars, apply to J. P. t. Comer Jol BANLEY, Agen Johnson and Ontario streets. ROYAL MAIL TRAINS Leaving Momtreal 12.00 noon, Fridays carries the Buropean Mail and lands passengers, otc. ut the Steam. on side, i avoiding any extra transfer, the following: Saturday, INTERCOLONIAL SSS. 0 Canada's Famous Train THE MARITIME EXPRESS Whesi. inward mail steamers at Halilax Bo mot connect with the regular train, the Maritime Express--west bound special train with through sleeping and dining cars attached, for passengers, baggage tnd mail, will 'leave Halifax for Quebec and Montreal, commecting with trains for Ottawn, Toronto and all points west, For further particulars, apply to Mont- teal City Office, 141,5t. James street. Time Table, ing Oct. 13th. STEAMER WOLFE ISLANDER Leave Wolfe Island :-- Tuesday, 180-v1s en Ie p a 7.80.15 a.m. 1.00--3.00 p. Thursdays, 'as Bat able am. 1.003.830. p.m, s 309,13 a.m. 1.00--3.00 p.m. Saturday, 8.00915 am. 1.00-3.00 p.m. en 915 am. 12.80--3.00 p.m. MON. 8.80-11.80 3.004.830 TUES, 8.30--11.30 a.m. 3.00--4.30 p.m. ED., 880-411.30 ato. 2004.30 p.m. THURS., 8.80--11.30 a.m. 2.00 Breakey's FRI 3. 00 p.m. BAT, 880-1180amm 5004350 pm SUN. ._ L_. 0.46 a.m. 1.15--3.30 p.m. 3 o'clock trig from to Wolte =) 's Dock and Simcoe Island. Ry subject ta change without Boat calls Gardesi Island going to E. CELAND, Manager. QUEBEC B.8. COMPANY BERMUDA SRE fury dn Tey Yo dian, 6,500 toms. Sailings every tea West India Cruises from New York New Steamer "'Guiana," 3,700 tons, pert - steamers sail ---- New York every 10 days, a ' to Nassau, Bahamas as. "Trisided™ fortnightly in February For ection of wi of scemery and perf: ht of Ulustrated ty giving rates of RSL 0. Pa Steamship Co., New York: A. AHERN, Scc'y., Quebec anada, or to Ticket gents, - 5 BANLBY, and J. P, GILDERSLEEVE, Kingston. 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Abo, "How to Ri es of * Send oy teday: Stage or coin Brom on | Binds shipped aiy whose Write us betore baying Address: co" EED COTTAM BIRD SE 1 1 % THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY; DECEMBER 28, ¥ 0G AD NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS ARE NOT MODERN THINGS. Pliny Recorded, in His Serapboolk © on Intention to Turn Over a New Leai--New Year Customs Throughout the world sho of watching the ol year dat ol the new come in has been a common observance for many centuries. In the monasteries and convents of religious ordets it has preyailed, and several Protestant de- nominations observe it as a beneficial institution, promoting piety, and good resolutions. Resojves are not limited to our own time, for near Pliny, the "scrapbook pa B his quaint fashion the return of the Sa- turnalia ; made a memorandum that dur- ing the coming year he must make sac- rifices to certaim gods whom he bad lected and that in other ways he must amend his life. There is no record that he did so; his' New Year resolutions d were probably forgotten as quickly as those made nowadays. The celebration of New Year's is carried on more extensively in Japan than in any other country; the custom a3 been handed down tc ® ReNergtions for centuries. The the occasion involves is te «le lasting from 13th ee ee cdength, jime--viz., begining of things) to 16th January (Hokonin mo yabuwiri), which 1s apprentices' holiday. On both occa- sions a sort of stew is eaten, composed of red beans, rice, sliced fish and kon- nyaka root. In China the New Year's beginning is the great holiday of all the year, when everybody hangs out flags and colored lanterns and sets off fire- crackers. People put on their best clothes and the children the best of all, jackets and trousers of bright blue or green or yellow or purple, the boys and the girls so much alike that you can only tell them apart by their hair. The boy's is braided in a pig-tail, and the girl's is done up with silver pins. The Romans called the fist month January in honor of the god Janus. At dawn of the year the people, robed in white, sacrificed elaborate offerings to their gods, especially to Janus. Frater- nal greetings, benevolent gifts and ex- changes of costly presents marked the day. All evil speaking, quarrels or ex- cesses were for one day laid aside, and the ideals of a nobler future were brought to miad by parables enacted in public places. The soldiers renewed their vows of loyalty to Caesar and put on new umiorms. In Herzegovina "ducking the drunk- ard" is a New Year's practice by the common people, and if no drunken man can be FO prisoner from the near- est jail is borrowed, then ducked, sound- ly kicked, and set at liberty. In Oman it was until lately the custom to cele- brate all marriages on the first day. In Dalmatia any man whose corduct had not been what it should was expected to go before the priest of the neighborhood and put good resolutions in writing, a certified copy being given to his wife, or, if unmarried, to his mother. At the vew Year advent in the Alps the village pastor delivers a sermon, listened to by people who have come many miles over snow frequently thirty feet" decp. At midnight the bells ring out upon the frosty Alpine air, and as they echo far and wide over the hills and valleys there are mountain villages where the melody of other village church bells chord in harmony, producing a concert no city could attain. One More At Rest. At Belgrave, Huron Co., the death of Mrs. Robt. McMurray occurred sudden ly Nov. 15th. Deceased (Mary Yuill) was born in Hastings County 68 years ago, and with her husband moved to Morris township, Huron, twenty-three vears ago. They have been active work- ers in the church. The funeral was very large. Rev. W sermon, quoted verses so appropriate and beautiful that some requested to have them put in print: One less at home ! The charmed circle broken Missed day by day from its accustomed place But cleansed and saved and perfected by grace One more in heaven ! a dear face One less at home ! A sense of loss that meets us at the gate, Within a place unfilled and desolate And far away our coming to await One more in heaven! One less at home! Chill as the earth-born mist the thought would rise And wrap our footsteps round and dim our eyes But the b sunbeam darteth from the skies, One more in heaven! (ne less on earth ! Its pain, its sorrow, and its toil o share One less the piigrim's daily cross to bea One more the crown of ransomed Samts t a At home in heaven One more in heaven Another ¢ to brigh Another the kfu. s an Another link igh our souls to r To home and heaven One more at home ! That home where separations cannot be : That home where none are missed eternally Lord Jesus, grant us all a place with Thee, At home in heaven. Mission Coac! s. A novel form of Christian enterprise 1s being conducted in South Africa, where a coach is employed to carry the with an old railroad coach, which was fitted up as a combination mission room 4 and travelling dwelling house. The sta consists of twelve pastors, three dea- cons, six laymen, seven native Chris- tians, and four ladies. The latter de- vote themselves to the needs of the women and girls on the line, as well as to narsing. The coaches are hitched on to the tram and disconnected at any rail way camp or village which the mission- ers think may be in need of attention. In this way many parts of South Africa have been visited, and excellent results have followed. Sometimes the spot where the coach periodically visits has become a kind of nucleus for a church, in the erection of which all classes of the community have willingly joined. ------ Clerical Marquis. Lord Normanby, who recently cele brated his sixty-first birthday, is the only clerical marquis, although several peers of lower degree are in holy o:- ders. Once vicar of a populous parish, near Manchester, he has also held 'the English chaplaincy at- San Remo, and was | for many years a canon of St Geotge's, Windsor, resigning that pre-| ferment only a few months ago. al- grave Castle, the family seat near Whit- by, is charmingly situated amid woods | i Lord Normanby conduct-| and 'ravines ed licre, before his-marriage, a prepars-| tory school, at 1 ing pects received early education. Far first-class storage on Carriages, | furniture, ete., go to James Latur uey's Carriage Works, 390 Princess Sud! {| Christ's law is the which a number, of liv} ---- And Not the Rule of Gold. is a conmanity nthe In one world Christ's will i§ much moge than talked about=--it is. There are scattered the world devoted, i but only one community where for of as- sociated lives, for one "family, a Ay va and His commands the daily actual deed. This in Westphalia, , under fhe care 3 Pastor van ingh. Here the golden rule is litera Tallow] and the tule of gold not olony even seems to 'violste every accepted didum of this world's wisdom, and yet it has been ever since its start, forty years ago, a marked success. If one should establish a colony and ige to it the unfortunate, the i ie, the hilliterate, the poor, the destitute, the in- pehriat 3 ae, the Selquehes. the fechlesm , the idiotic, the tic, the pat this - without pal and without backing, he might be following the lit- eral teachings of Christ, but he could not be accused of following the first principle of ordikary prudence. Yet this is what was done and is still being done, Say after day, month after month, year after yegr, in unue cotgnian- ity, and -th remarka results, The claim of being in trouble is the one key that will unlock the doors of the com- munity, and with that key one is never turned away. "I never employ a man who has been unfortunate," the gréat Rothschild gave as the secret of his suc- cess; the opposite is the law at Bielefeld. For The Rest Day. To notable events in the historic Jer usalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, will be added the foundation of a Nas tional Lord's Day Allance or Sunday Observance Union. .. This 3 rtant, st was decided at a conference he last month under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and aftend- ed, through their representativ «hy over forty great ah educational, hygienic, philanthropic, in- dustrial. The conférence mas fhe omt- come of the Caxton Hall Conference of last year, of the subsequent meehng at the Mansion House, of the memorable "Message to the Nation," of the is- sion held generally throughout the goun- try last March, and of hundreds of meetings throughout the kingdom with- in two years Pe Avebury spake for the Sunday closing of ghops in the name of four hundred associations of shop- keepers, while similar claims tg rest were urged on behalf of sailors, rail- waymen, police, fishermen, stmen, {bus and tramway meh, and of branches of industry in which enforced Sunday labor is prevalent. The Maoris are devotedly loyal to the Empire. They loved the great white Queen, they know the King and they have seen the Prince of Wales and the Princess. They haye a church at Ro- torua with service in Maori, translated from the prayerbook. Outs: the church is a statue of the late Queen, erected by the congregation. It is only a wooden structure, but meaps so much to these people that as they pass it go- ing fo church they bow, and their senti- ment is inscribed in letters of gold on the pedestal--"Aroha la Koe, Ake, Ake, Ake!" which means, "I shall-{6ve you for ever and ever." William Ewart Gladstone was so sav- agely attacked politically that his - sonal character was not free from slan- der. That he was ewen better than the world knew at his real best, is being dis- closed through his private papers. His ifts to religion and charities reached $417,500, besides $150,000 to the hostel and library of St. Demiol's. This must {have been a large. proportion of his {means India has a new coin (anna) worth about three cents. It is made of nickel land has two novel features, It is ro- W. H. Hartley, during hisg ise shaped, with indented 'edges, so {that in the dark it can easily be distin- {guished from other coins, and its value 1s expressed in five lar es. The English raver Rehirés that "accidents wil, happen ifr the 'best rego- |lated families," but the Japanese, to {make the phrase picturesque, say, "Even {a monkey sometimes falls from a tree" The Bishop of Norwich says that a man should give his 'wife'a. present now and then. The. editor will thank the bishop if he will ecase stirring up trou- ble in the editorial home. If we consent to live higher, purer, worthier lives, it will do far more for the clearness and certitude 'of owr faith than a whole world of controversy. In every command or God there is wrapped up a pledgs, in every precept a promise. Whatever he bids us da he will enable us to accomplish. A Thrilling Call, | One of Hon. S. H. Blake's anecdotc's {suggests that sentimént ion was not strong in earlier days. * uncle, rector nedr Lonllon, was under {the impression that the Methodists were | doing a great deal of sheep, stealing, that {is, luring away members of the rector's {flock. Passing their church one day |during a service, my uncle wondered if any of his parishipnefsiWése there, aid {entered to hind out. He climbed to the gallery and the officiating clergyman spied him... 'Come down out of that, you hoary-headed sinner," the preacher shout ed to my uncle, 'and be converted.' It was marvellons how speedily my uncle came down and climbed into his wagon." A Native's Faith. A man in Burmah possessed a copy of the Psalms in Burmese, loft behind by a traveller. Before he had finished reading the book he cast away ns idols. For twenty years he worshipped the Eternal God revealed to him in the Psalms, using the Fifay-first as a daily prayer. Then a missionary appeared and gave him a New Testament, The story jof salvation through , Jesus Christ brought great joy .to his heart, and he said: "1 Jr twenly years 1 walked by starkight ; now I sce the Sug { 1 \ { | is the marvelous colony, or group of colonies, on_ thie outs: of felciod, R or church up- | WILL AGAINST Wich RICH. Eelieves Riotous Living of 'Pluto. crats is As Evil As Crimes of the Vicious--Will Begin Right at Home. Harend a hk rv le, Tic on Te Wie ba wesned his rec- nie oF St Joh Ow a ch he um n po saint the wicked nich. He be- that the riotous 8 ving of. he jus s wicked as us icin 5 hs. He believes in the brotherhood of man. He wants to work for mational and communal ownership of ion, to stop graft and tion in high places as much crime as lowly ones. He sealizes that his work cannot be world-wide. He doesn't fool himself with any hopes that be is going to take the universe by storm. He pur- $ ping his campaign wi Seay right in Worcester, where there are, plenty of idle rich persoms, includ ing some of his late flock. He intends to try as a Statter_the wa of The Church Association for Improvy - bor Conditions, established a Ne % York by Bishop Potter 1 bi sin many cities and one in Worcester. He believes in unions, in settlément work, in boys' clubs--in anything that uplifts, He and Mrs. White are mém- bers of a socialistic organization. S of his friends think that Mr. White has a great career ahead of him. A few la at his enthusiasms, ; Speaking of the Salvation Army's Suicide Bureau, Genetal Booth said: "People laughed at the little notices stuck up in the amy headquarters, "Doa't commit suicide until you speak to the captain' The bureau has saved scores, even hundreds, of lives. The cure is the practice of unselfishness, even if at first a mere practice, with no heart behind it. Like any other habit, it strengthens with use." ' THE PREMIER BELL Is Great 'Paul of St. Paul's Cathedral. During a case in an English court the other day, it was stated by an eminent lawyer that Big Ben is the biggest bell in the British isles. The statement was apparently acquiesced in by judge, jury and spectators, as it passed unchalleng- ed. And po wonder, since standard books of reference assert the same thing. They are, however, all wrong. Britain's biggest bell is Great Paul, which hangs in Si. Paul's cathedral. It is a very hermit amongst bells. Its abiding place is far away m the innermost recesses of the building, im a chamber forbid- den to the public, and to be reached only after clambering of tortuous stairs and traversing of devious passages. In- deed, so securely is the monster buried in its aerial mausolenm of solid mason- ry, that, though rung every day, London is unaware of the fact. ux a whisper of it may be heard in the churchyard, the ghost of the echo of a distant tin tinnabulation, so to speak. Yet Great Paul weighs seventeen, tons, and is rung by the combined labor of four men, who swing it to and fro for the regulation five minutes until towards the end it is swinging nearly two-thirds of a cir cle, and both sides are thundering with the crashing blows of a clapper which itself weighs a third of a ton. Big Ben, on the other hand, weighs only 13 tons and a half, and is incapable of being rung. Church Temperance. The istrare_ at Clerkenwell Po- lice Ce nda, exclaimed one mom- ing last month to a prisoner: "You are the fifteenth woman who appears re spectable and holding a fairish position coming up already this mormng for drunkenness. It is terrible. 1 do not know what is coming to women," The day's roll call of prisoners was 'even then not half over. In the British Med- ical Journal, Dr. Fletcher Little writes "The degencration of the race attribut able to alcohol has become so serious that there is a duty on the medical pro fession. The London magistrates have pointedly commented on the very mark ed increase of drunkenness In women The profession should consider what has been the after-effect of alcohol on the female constitution and habits when administered as medicine." There are times in the maternal existence when especial care should be taken to arrange the diet with regard for offspring Nation Helpers. At the annual meeting of the Milan esian mission in London, Captain D'Oy y, R.N., spoke as an "outsider," and bore valuable testimony to the work of the missionaries. Previous to his expe- rience in the New Hebrides he was not mitogether in sympathy with mission: aries, but "after having met them un der every circumstance I acknowledge loyal support from. them in all -thinj touching the welfare of the islands. In fact, the missionary in the Southern seas has been the greatest asset we have had as a civilising power. Where others dare not go without armed men, he oes alone and lives. The native has a cart and the missionary is the only man who has touched it; the natives look up to him _ they respect him, and they trust his word. He is not only do ing good work for his mission, he is doing a great and noble work for his country." A Sacred Duty. Government is one of the most sacred] things we possess. In the early days of New York city the sturdy Dutch fathers fooked upon election day as second in sacredness only to the Sabbath. The churches were opened before the polls. Voters gathered to hear a sermon from their pastors. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was solemnly dispensed, and then reverently, prayerfully, peo- ple went fojth to make choice of the men who should serve them in ic office. We in Canada might profitably follow the spirit of this pxample, and fi realize that the duty and privilege of voting is sacred. 'Gladstone said: "The casting of a ball~* is a sacrament, an oath, the obligations of which are re- corded in' heaven." General Booth has stafistics to show that only one sin in eighly is found out. + So that many of us whose repu- tations are a heap sight better than our characters need not worry yet awhile. A man who has Fved in London for fourteen Years, never saw the cabman who wears the badge No. 1 until re cently. © The cabman was talking to a sollcague bearing badge 19833, , CAMPAIGN © 1 OF CANADA oT Head Office - : - - Toronto $1.00 OPENS AN ACCOUNT » wor Sen Dap. Berm: sda Interest added four times a year Savings Bank Department in Connection with afl Branches. N BRANCH J. 8 COR. PRINCESS AND BAGOT STS. i ------------------------------ ---- RE -------------------------- -- BE Mee Boots The season of skating has only started. Better get in the rush and enjoy the fun. Men's Hockey Boots, $1.50, 2.00, 2.50 to 3.50. Ladies' Hockey Boots, $2.00 and 2.50, "" Skating Boots, $1.50, 1.75 and 2.00. Boys' Hockey Boots, sizes 11, 12 and 13, $1.25, 1.50 and 2.00; Boys' Hockey Boots, sizes 1 to 5, $1.50, 2.00 and 2.50. Canvas Skate Straps are newest and 1 est. Only 15c and 20c pair. Ankle Supports, made of good leather, all sizes, only 25c. ) = 000000000000 0000 0000000000 WIOOO0ON0000RN0E0ORNOIIRNOEOIOINIITG Abernethy's GIFT SUGGESTIONS. p Large Stock. Some cheap lines at 36 and $7. Brass Bed gift. Ours range from $15 to $65, Tron Bods at $3 and $4. We also have a large Music and China Cabinets, which are selling at a reduction of 15 per cent, These are special, Leading Undertaker. UTR, R. J. REID, » -- BRERA CRRIReRR Ba Oca Sil iQ SRR ¢ Batger & Co's. Assorted Fruits Lemon and Orange Slices, Pineapple, Strawberries, &c. 1 1b. Drums for 25¢ A FEW BOXES OF : CADBURY'S & ROWNTREE'S CHOCOLATES Left. Will clear them off at half price. 75 Cent Boxes for 40 Cents. A. J. REES, 166 Princess St. "PHONE 58. FERRE El RU TA SATII TO PATTERN, Immediate Attention Special Price. 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